In the early morning of April 9, Okinawa Island was silent. After a day of intense training, the People's Liberation Army soldiers, except for the on-duty personnel, had fallen asleep.

Although China and Japan are currently in a war, all the officers and soldiers of the Third Field Army of Okinawa, which are preparing to attack Japan's mainland, are busy but not in a mess, and the preparations are done tense and orderly.

In addition to taking on some tasks of landing on Japan's local operations, the Third Field Army also undertakes the task of landing on Southeast Asia and the Philippine Islands. Therefore, the front-line commander of the landing on Japan's local operations is Hu Tiantao, who has been promoted to deputy commander of the Third Field Army.

Hu Tiantao personally climbed Okinawa Island as early as mid-January, and always insisted on being on the front line of the three-night commanders and fighters training, especially the joint training of the Marine Corps, which Hu Tiantao caught the most.

When Hu Tiantao was in the Red Ten Army, he also learned a lot of advanced military concepts with Xunbo. Later, he stayed in the inner line of the Red Third Front Army. Under Su Yu's command, he repeatedly sent out surprise troops and won many strange battles. He was definitely a senior general of our army who was both wise and brave. He grew up very fast in recent years. By 1944, he had been promoted from Chief of Staff of the Third Field Army to Deputy Commander of the Third Field Army.

This time, Su Yu sent him to Okinawa to organize and command the Japanese landing battle, which was considered to be the right person. Although it was already late at night and the soldiers were sleeping, Hu Tiantao and Mino Japanese landing battle front command post were still brightly lit. Hu Tiantao was standing in front of the huge military sand table in the Pacific region and pondering.

Hu Tiantao knew that today, a shocking sea battle would take place in the Okinawa waters. His troops had become a huge bait, waiting for the little Japanese devils' navy and army to come and take the bait.

A week ago, Hu Tiantao received a call from Commander-in-Chief Xun. On the phone, General Xun explained to him that his troops should do a good job in baiting and cooperate with the People's Liberation Army Navy to stage a big drama.

As early as half a month ago, Japan's reconnaissance aircraft strengthened its reconnaissance efforts on the Ryukyu Islands, especially Okinawa Island. However, under the command of the superiors, the Okinawa Air Force only adopted a conservative response and expulsion policy, and did not show its strong strength.

Although Hu Tiantao could not fully understand the intentions of his superiors at that time, Hu Tiantao, who had fought countless battles with Xunbo and Su Yu, could still sensitively detect that this time, Xunbo, the commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army against Japan, must have set up a shocking situation again and waited for the Japanese devils to come and be deceived.

This made Hu Tiantao extremely excited. Over the years, the three fields have been extremely itchy. Since the Battle of Songhu ended in the autumn of 1937, the three fields have not had the chance to fight a battle.

In 1942, looking at the first field, second field, fifth field, sixth field and the Taihang Corps that emerged from nowhere suddenly showed their strong military strength. They wiped out more than one million Japanese troops in Myanmar, Northeast China, Outer Mongolia, Siberia, and the Middle East. Such an jealous record was not the turn of the Third Field Army to send a soldier.

This made all the commanders and soldiers of the Third Field Army very jealous. Many people couldn't help complaining. Xun Chief of Staff was the same. After setting up the battle situation today, why didn't they expect their old troops and subordinates to share some of the soup and drink some soup?

Of course, the commanders and soldiers just complained, but they dared not really have any opinions about Xunzhu. Xunzhu planned the overall situation, so how could he care about the feelings of a unit? Therefore, everyone held their breath and waited for the next battle to begin.

By the end of 1944, the soldiers of the Third Field Army, who had been strengthening landing combat training over the years, received a relatively clear combat order. The Third Field Army would work with other brother troops to jointly undertake the combat mission of landing on Japan's mainland and Southeast Asian Islands. This made the Third Field Army very happy. Everyone was really worried that if their troops had not had time to go to the battlefield, Japan would surrender.

Starting from the beginning of 1945, the main forces of the 31 and 32nd Army began to transfer from Taiwan to Okinawa Island, and joined with the 311th Division, which originally defended Okinawa, and began to make final preparations to attack the Japanese mainland.

Now, it is already early April, the Battle of the Indochina Peninsula has ended, and the Japanese army has only more than 3 million troops entrenched in the Southeast Asian archipelago and Japan. These troops are strategically despised the enemy.

The 31st and 32nd Army of the Third Field Army and the 32nd Army had nearly 200,000 people and the People's Liberation Army Marines who had landed in Okinawa earlier. From the beginning of 1945, intensive training began on Okinawa Island and nearby islands. The training programs became more and more complicated and the training difficulties were getting greater and greater. By early April, all training subjects had been completed, and the soldiers were ready to land on Japan.

But just seven days ago, Mr. Xun's phone call made Hu Tiantao know that his troops were targeted by the Japanese. It has become the flesh in the eyes of the Japanese. The Japanese Navy is organizing an unprecedented Okinawa landing operation. At the same time, it concentrates six aircraft carriers, two battleships and dozens of large surface ships and submarines of the Japanese Navy to escort a large number of Japanese Navy landing ships and transport ships, mobilizes more than 400,000 Japanese troops from the Southeast Asian archipelago at one time to carry out landing operations on Okinawa, China's Ryukyu Islands. After obtaining this strategic fulcrum for Southeast Asia and Japan, it will gradually evacuate Japanese troops stationed in Southeast Asia to strengthen the defense of Japan.

When Hu Tiantao first heard the news, he was really shocked. He was aiming at the local Japanese enemies all day long. Unexpectedly, he became the target in the eyes of others. This made Hu Tiantao feel really unhappy. However, Hu Tiantao certainly knew that Xun Chief of the Communist Party of China would not interfere with the command of the troops casually. This time he called himself must have a deep meaning. Therefore, he felt relieved. He had already been aiming at the little Japanese. How could he let the little Japanese plan succeed? I should listen to Xun's masterpiece carefully.

Sure enough, in the next conversation with Hu Tiantao, Xunbo learned in detail about the current deployment and preparations of the third field of the Okinawa PLA and the Marine Corps. Finally, Xunbo will use the nearly 300,000 troops of Okinawa as bait to attract all the major Japanese naval forces around the Okinawa waters, and then our navy and air force will annihilate the major Japanese naval forces in one fell swoop.

At the same time, Xunbo You explained the details of the layout to Hu Tiantao in detail, emphasized some points of attention, and finally ended the call.

After receiving Xunbo's call, Hu Tiantao was naturally extremely excited. Then, Commander Su Yu also called and communicated with Hu Tiantao about the details of the bait battle.

In fact, the core of this bait battle is to make the Japanese army use a tactic of oil-adding, and to annihilate the Japanese navy and army's vitality near Okinawa Island. It will further clear the obstacles for the People's Liberation Army to land in Japan and Southeast Asia.

Therefore, Hu Tiantao began to arrange troops to enter a situation where the inside is tight and loose outside is loose since a few days ago. On the one hand, he pretended to be a normal training for the troops, and on the other hand, he began to arrange anti-landing combat plans for Okinawa Island.

According to the instructions of the superiors, the troops must take active resistance and retreat within the first three days. While striking a huge blow to the Japanese army, they must also give up the landing ground to the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army can complete the landing plan of two to three groups and more than 400,000 troops. Subsequently, our strong sea and air force will suddenly exert force to wipe out the main Japanese naval forces that covered the Japanese landing operations in one fell swoop, and then hundreds of thousands of Japanese southern dispatched troops were catching turtles in the jar, forcing them to surrender, or annihilate them on the spot.

Three days ago, after receiving the official combat mission from his superiors, Hu Tiantao immediately began to make more detailed pre-war arrangements, and also began pre-war mobilization. When the commanders and fighters of the Third Field Army heard that the Japanese were about to fight to the door of their homes, they were all excited and wanted to swallow the Japanese devils in one go. However, Hu Tiantao was very patient and was the senior commanders of the Third Field Army who screamed like a wild wolf. It took a long time for everyone to deeply understand the combat intentions of the superiors. Finally, they went down excitedly to assign specific tasks to their subordinates. It seemed that after being influenced by their superiors, a fierce general also turned into a cunning fox.

On the night of April 9, on the Yamato battleship, Izuru Yamamoto, who personally commanded the Okinawa landing and naval battle, also stayed up all night.

Although Yamamoto Irosaki carefully planned this Okinawa landing operation, he used almost all the power of the current Japanese Navy to bring the main forces of the stormy Japanese southern dispatched troops to the northern ports of the Philippines. The first wave of more than 100,000 troops has been transported through landing ships, various transport ships and even merchant ships. This group of people will arrive on Okinawa Island in the morning of the 9th, and the second wave of more than 100,000 troops is also set sail. It is expected to arrive in the third day, and the third wave of the army is loading, and it is expected to arrive in six days. Although the Okinawa landing has organized a total of more than 400,000 troops, Yamamoto Irosaki still cannot believe that his army can successfully implement the Okinawa landing and occupy Okinawa.

Yes, although I organized six large aircraft carriers, two battleships and dozens of large surface ships and submarines to the ocean near Okinawa, preparing to hunt down the aircraft carrier formations that the Chinese Navy came to reinforce, according to reconnaissance, China is currently two aircraft carrier formations of the Taiwan Navy fleet that can reach the Okinawa waters within three or four days. Several other aircraft carrier formations of the Chinese Navy are either concentrated in the Malay Peninsula area and are dealing with the feint attack on the Malay Peninsula launched by the Japanese army on Sumatra, Indonesia in order to cooperate with the Okinawa combat plan. Or they are preparing to cooperate with the People's Liberation Army's plan to land on the Japanese mainland organized by the PLA in the northern region.

However, Izuru Yamamoto knew clearly that the Okinawa landing operation was completely within the air force strikes in Taiwan and East China, and China's military use has always been elusive. Even if the reconnaissance report clearly points out the distribution of the formations of Chinese aircraft carriers, Izuru Yamamoto did not have much confidence in this.
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